theme: Least Developed Countries Category
Least Developed Countries Category
15 March 2018
The Committee for Development Policy announced its decision to recommend four countries for graduation. Which are they?
9 March 2018
As one of the pillars of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development the CDP will discuss multiple dimensions of "leaving no one behind" in an open session during the 20th Plenary. Watch live on webtv.un.org on Wednesday, 14 March 2018 or join us in Conference Room 6 at UN Headquarters in New York.
16 February 2018
Fourteen countries have successfully graduated from the LDC category, or have made noteworthy progress towards graduation, their lessons are relevant to the international community.
8 December 2017
This Policy Note provides some answers by analyzing the strategies and policy choices of 14 countries that have successfully graduated from the LDC category, or have made noteworthy progress towards graduation
16 October 2017
The Secretariat of the CDP met checkwith officials from various Ministries (Finance, Planning, Foreign Affairs), the Bureau of Statistics and the Prime Minister’s Office, as well as with representatives from the private sector (Chamber of Commerce and the garments association) and the Centre for Policy Dialogue.
7 June 2017
The Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2017/33, Supplement No. 13) on its 19th plenary session held from 20-24 March 2017 is now available in all six official languages. The report addresses the six themes discussed by the CDP during the ...
10 May 2017
Professor Jose Antonio Ocampo, Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), participated as panelist at the ECOSOC Integration Segment on 10 May 2017. The session under the theme "Bringing the ECOSOC System Together" featured representatives of ...
12 April 2017
The paper starts with an overview of Ethiopia’s economic growth and the change in the domestic economic structure. The manufacturing sector is seen as the success of Ethiopia’s Growth, and its development to a large extent the product of an activist developmental state. The paper then examines growth and diversification of exports and the country’s recent efforts to effectively exploit its natural resources. An analysis of public and private investment and the underlying allocation of financial resources finds that a recent upturn in domestic investment has been financed largely by foreign aid, and that private financing remains too low. Finally, the paper addresses educational attainment, arguing that Ethiopia has some distance to go in its attempts to close the large human capital gap relative to other low-income countries.
29 March 2017
In a special briefing on 21 March 2017, during the 19th Plenary Session of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP), Professors Tea Petrin, Dzodzi Rsikata, Keith Nurse and Rashid Hassan briefed delegates on lessons learned in building productive capacity in least developed countries (LDCs) – those who have graduated and those in the process of graduating.
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